A row of patients in beds sits on the porch at Waverly Hills Sanatorium Women's Ward. Each woman has a small table by her bed for glasses, flowers, books, and other materials. Several are propped up in bed reading. The beds are on wheels and each...

Social workers visiting tuberculosis patient at Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky. Inside the sanatorium, women lie on their backs on white sheeted beds in a row in a narrow room with a brick wall on the right and many doors on the...

Interior photos of Waverly Hills sanatorium including an operating or examining room with a gurney and other medical supplies and a hallway with two almost transparent male figures along the right wall.

This photograph shot at Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Hospital shows a man sitting near a hospital bed as he inserts a tool into his mouth and looks into a makeshift mirror. The man is dressed in a thermal shirt, vest, and hat and sits backward on a...

Adults and children sit at tables in the Waverly Hills Sanatorium dining room. A cart sits in the middle of the floor with servings of food on white dishes. Women in white aprons move about the room. Two boys sit at a table in the foreground. One...

Address: 8101 Dixie Highway, Louisville, Kentucky. Several vehicles are parked in front of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Three slightly arched doorways are framed in stone for the main entrance. This motif repeats on the sides of the entry...

A view of the east side of Waverly Hills Sanatorium located at 4400 Paralee Lane in Louisville, Kentucky. A large grove of trees obscures part of the multi-story hospital in the far background. Opened in 1910, the Sanatorium treated tuberculosis...

A view of the front of Waverly Hills Sanatorium located at 4400 Paralee Lane in Louisville, Kentucky. A large grove of trees obscures part of the multi-story hospital in the far background. Opened in 1910, the Sanatorium treated tuberculosis...

Location: Dixie Highway, Pleasure Ridge Park. When it opened in 1911, Waverly Hills Sanatorium housed only eight patients. The design of the building is in keeping with theories of the time regarding the efficacy of a rural setting and atmosphere...

A nurse gives a shot to a woman with a bandage on her arm. In front of these women is a small table with two stoppered vials, two glass containers, bandages and a kidney-shaped bowl. Three other men and four other women are observing. Several...

A doctor wears a smock and holds a needle over a draped figure. Next to him is a small table with several stoppered bottles and needles. The nurse stands by a piece of equipment composed of a two glass jars and some tubing. The window stands open...

Five beds are shown on a sunny porch. Each bed has a patient under white blankets. Nurses stand nearby, as does a man in a dark suit. This may have been taken at the Waverly Hills Sanatorium on Dixie Highway, which was the largest tuberculosis...